BB King once wrote a song called “Paying the cost to be the boss” – but what happens when boss refuses to pay the cost? It’s a shame that this is what it took to get me writing again but lets find at least a modicum of good in the avalanche of bad. As of […]... Read More

Let them listen to Cake… The best thing about MMOs is the community – that is assuming you have a community of regular games you talk to all the time. Recently one of The Older Gamers in World of Warcraft introduced me to a new musical group called “Cake” in a round about way. […]... Read More

News recently passed our newsfeed of the very last Blockbuster store left in America (And yes, we prefer to get our news about the U.S. from BBC World News). You can attribute it to cable, as some may do, or to streaming video like Netflix, but the more I stream videos the more I […]... Read More

I keep seeing this picture in my mind when ever I see Sylvanas Windrunner when I log into World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. As Fran has said, it is certainly a love/hate relationship. Just before Sylvanas burns the World Tree she looks at another of her many victims and says “This is War” to […]... Read More

“Blizzard is more interested in telling you their narrative then letting you make your own narrative” – IGN, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth: How WoW has taken the World out of Warcraft /spit /slap That’s about all you can do to an NPC (non-player character) in World of Warcraft that is marked as “essential” […]... Read More

As Sylvanas Windrunner is leaning over a dying night elf whispering into her ear, why she is doing what she is doing…the elf replies with her dying breath… this isn’t war, this is hatred. I couldn’t agree more. After finishing the last of the quests, that lead up to the new expansion that is about […]... Read More

My grandfather used to call it “telling someone to go to hell and make them like it” – what I am talking about here is what I have come to think of as “the great retcon” by Blizzard. Retroactive continuity – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which […]... Read More

“Haters gonna hate, ainters gonna aint”-The Interview Once you lose your audience, its hard to win them back. Still, as we have often seen, once it becomes popular to hate something, be it a movie, a game or a person, it begins to pick up speed. Eventually it’s like people hopping on the […]... Read More

Let’s be clear. ArenaNet didn’t “fold like a cheap card table“, she wasn’t “thrown to the wolves”, and she most certainly is not a victim. Mike O’Brien, president of Arenanet, most certainly did not fail to lead. As has been pointed out, Derior’s comment did not exist in a vacuum, and most certainly neither did […]... Read More

There is a line that that Tina Turner delivers in one of her movies where she says “Today, cock of the walk, tomorrow a feather duster” – truer words were never spoken. Perhaps its the way Jessica Price said “next rando asshat who attempts to explain the concept of branching dialogue to me–as if, you […]... Read More